Barrel-head



(No Model.)

A. N. CLARK. BARREL HEAD.

No. 595,371.- Patented Dec.14,'1897 NITED STATES .ATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED N. CLARK, OF ATHENS, MICHIGAN.

BARREL-H EAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,371, dated December14, 1897.

Application filed Tune 24, 1896.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ALFRED N. CLARK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Athens, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, haveinvented a new and useful Method of Joining or Binding Together Two orMore Pieces of Wooden Heading or Box- Shooks, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to improvements in helads for barrels, tubs, andlike storing vesse s.

This invention consists of certain novel constructions, combinations,and arrangements of parts, all of which will be hereinafter more fullydescribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 represents a central vertical section through a barrelhead embodyingmy invention, and Fig. 2 represents an enlarged detail side elevation ofone of the staples before its application to the head.

A B in the drawings represent the respective sections of thebarrel-head, and S the securing-staples. The said improved head ispreferably formed in two semicircular sections A and B. The peripheriesof said sections are beveled in the usual manner to provide for theirfitting into the grooves in the ends of the staves of the barrel. Thesaid semicircular heads are secured together, so as to form anapproximately circular head, by metallic staples S S, one of saidstaples being driven into the respective semicircular halves of the headat the middle upon one side and two of said staples being driven intosaid halves toward each end upon the opposite side, thus doubly bracingthe said sections Serial No. 596,818. (No model.)

and firmly securing them together. Each staple is driven entirelythrough the respective sections and the protruding ends turned down uponthe opposite sides and again crossed over the division between thesections and driven into the respective halves of the head.

My improved connected head is a great advantage in coopering, as such ahead can be held much more easily than a head formed in sections,especially in such shops as employ machinery for assembling the variousparts of the barrels or kegs.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a barrel-head, the combination with a plurality of sections, ofstaples securing said sections rigidly together and each comprising asingle piece of wire formed into a loop which is passed through therespective adjoining edges of the sections and provided with extendedarms bent down and driven into the wood upon the opposite sides of thejoints between the sections, substantially as described.

2. In a barrel-head, the combination with two semicircular sections, ofstaples for securing said sections rigidly together, each consisting ofa single piece of wire formed into a loop, the respective tines of whichare passed through said sections and bent down and driven into the woodof the opposite section from that through which they pass, substantiallyas described.

ALFRED N. CLARK.

Witnesses:

NAT L. ROWE, I. E. WnLLs.

